Metallica frontman james hetfield showed off his new guitar built from reclaimed wood salvaged from the garage the band rehearsed and wrote during their legendary run in the 80 s.
James hetfield garage door guitar.
Scott colothan published 10th apr 2018.
James hetfield kept the wood and contacted his trusted luthier ken lawrence so that he could build a brand new explorer guitar using the wood from that garage while retaining its essence.
In the video hetfield shares the story of 3132 carlson boulevard in el cerrito california the garage where most of the thrash icons monumental albums ride the lightning and master of puppets were written.
James hetfield talks about his new guitar on metallica tv.
As james hetfield said in an interview yesterday with metallica tv he thought it d be pretty fucking rockstar like to take the garage from the house on carlson boulevard in el cerrito california where hetfield and drummer lars ulrich lived from 1983 to 86 and bring it.
In honor of the re release of the 5 98 ep garage days re revisited we thought you d enjoy story about another garage the carlson garage where ride th.